<div>Now, the PostgreSQL supports only VS2005 directly. And it supports VS2005 well.<br>The dependant project Geos and Proj of postGIS also can be built under VS2005 very well.<br>My thinking is that postGIS could do this as well by a little extra work. <br>Anyway, it will take time to make it work.</div><div><includetail><div> </div><div style="font:Verdana normal 14px;color:#000;"><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px;FONT-FAMILY: Arial Narrow;padding:2px 0 2px 0;">------------------ Original ------------------</div><div style="FONT-SIZE: 12px;background:#efefef;padding:8px;"><div id="menu_sender"><b>From: </b> "Paragon Corporation"<lr@pcorp.us>;</div><div><b>Date: </b> Mon, Apr 9, 2012 08:06 PM</div><div><b>To: </b> "'PostGIS Development Discussion'"<postgis-devel@postgis.refractions.net>; <wbr></div><div></div><div><b>Subject: </b> Re: [postgis-devel] About the build of postgis on windows platform</div></div><div> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="461405311-09042012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Not without a lot of work I'm afraid. That's why we
didn't go down that route, we started off trying and gave up. Granted we don't
have much experience with VC. No one has stepped up to spend the effort on
it. </font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="461405311-09042012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">We personally don't care much for VS 2008 (2008 is ancient at
this point) so we are definitely not willing to put in the effort for
it. The main reason I don't like it is I'm running VC 2010 (just for web
development) on my box and evne that is old and </font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="461405311-09042012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">I don't want to install yet another VS that takes eons to
install and when I can just copy my mingw chain to another computer and be done
with it. I don't think the PostgreSQL system completely supports VC 2010
yet and even if it did, we'd have to be distrbuting VC 2010 runtimes in the
build, thus making our packaging more complicated.</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="461405311-09042012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"></font></span> </div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="461405311-09042012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">PostGIS make check tool chain is also very much
designed to work under a Unix environment so to check VS without that,
I could never trust the build I make with VS so I'd end up having to build
with 2 chains.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="461405311-09042012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">So unless someone else is willing to put in the aggrevation of
getting a native VS build working, it ain't happening. </font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="461405311-09042012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Sorry to be so blunt about it,</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="461405311-09042012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial">Regina</font></span></div>
<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="461405311-09042012"><font color="#0000ff" size="2" face="Arial"><a href="http://www.postgis.us">http://www.postgis.us</a></font></span></div>
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[mailto:postgis-devel-bounces@postgis.refractions.net] <b>On Behalf Of
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<div></div>For now, seems the native build of VS2005/2008 on windows platform
is not supported directly for postgis2.0.<br>Is it possible to get a
makefile.vc to work for the postgis?<br><br>Since postgresql has already
changed the default build mode on windows platform, I think it's very useful
to most of the developer.<br><br>Thanks.<br><br>
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